Meet Stephanie Banister, the 27 year-old poster child for Australia’s One Nation movement, which basically seeks to ban all immigration, especially by people from Middle Eastern countries. She’s making waves in her home country right now for a trainwreck television interview she did this week, one which some are comparing to the interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric back in 2008. But in fairness to Palin, Banister is WAY more stupid than she is.

How stupid is Stephanie Banister, you ask? Well, she apparently thinks Islam is a country (“I don’t oppose Islam as a country, umm, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia”), she thinks Jews are followers of Jesus Christ (“Jews aren’t under haram, they have their own religion which follows Jesus Christ”) and she wants to ban halal food (HAVE YOU NEVER HAD A PLATE OF DELICIOUS LAMB AND RICE FROM THE CART AT 55TH & 6TH IN NYC?!?!). Like, Palin, however, Banister is good at blaming the media for her coming off like an idiot.

“Unfortunately, they’ve completely twisted all my words and made me out to be a stand-up criminal and a stupid moron,” she said after the interview aired. If thingS don’t work out in Australia maybe she can move to Wasilla and become the next governor of Alaska?

Unfortunately, they’ve completely twisted all my words and made me out to be a stand-up criminal and a stupid moron.

I love how this is the standard defense when an idiot is quoted saying dumbfuck idiotic things. “My words didn’t mean what they meant when I said them, the LIBRUL MEDIA has just made me sound racist/sexist/idiotic.”

I live in Brisbane, ( right next to Logan, where she is running for election )
and the thing that makes this so sad is that there are plenty of people who would vote for her. Heres another recent cringe worthy event in Australian politics:

The major political issue at the moment isn’t about ‘immigration’ but about ‘asylum seekers’ or ‘refugees’. Most people here have this warped idea Australia is being overrun by ‘illegals’ because of the mis-information from political parties and the media.

To call her Australia’s Sarah Palin is actually an insult to Sarah Palin. She is a fringe candidate at best (though it is Queensland, so who knows). Her party, One Nation, is the political equivalent of a racist comment on YouTube.

The One Nation Party had some relevance 15 years ago under Pauline Hanson- who is a much better Sarah Palin comparison. Stupid and actually came close to some power. This Banister lady is a moron and of no consequence really.

Oh wait she’s in Queensland which is basically the Aussie equivalent of the racist South.

Is there a correlation between being a welder and being an insane right-wing loon? There was a kid in the Texas Government class I took in the spring that was a welder/Alex Jones following conspiracy theory nut, right up to mass e-mailing a bunch of right wing conspiracy theories to the entire class on the day of the final.